Let's start simple. I always grab enough books for every child in the group, plus an extra one for me. I let my students take their guided reading books home each night and the extra copy comes in handy if someone leaves their copy at home after the first night. Timers. According to Jan, guided reading groups should only last for 20 minutes each.

Important side note about my Reading Groups: From September through end of January, we focus on reading skills and strategies from Tuesday through Friday each week. I take a lot of time at the beginning of the year to truly dig in DEEP to each of the guided reading books that we are reading. 1 - Reading A to Z. Reading A to Z is by far the most affordable place to find books for guided reading. It does cost a little over $100 per year per classroom. While that sounds like a lot, you have access to hundreds of books that you can print in color or grayscale. But back to today's topic - the essential components of a guided reading lesson. In this post, I'll describe what I consider to be the most important parts of a guided reading lesson. I'll discuss how and why these components may vary, as well as provide multiple types of (free) guided reading lesson plan templates. The Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ Guided Reading Collection. Meet students where they are and lead them forward with intention and precision. Build a rich Guided Reading collection over time with the most powerful, engaging, original texts to advance each student's ability to process increasingly challenging books with fluency and comprehension. Yay! We made it to guided reading. Guided reading is done as part of a small group (4-6 students). The text is selected based on the students' instructional reading level. The students read the book independently while the teacher supports the students and coaches them towards success. This is where true differentiation takes place! How do our book introductions support our early emergent readers? Kind